The Byzantine-Arab Chronicle (938-1034) of Yahya b. Sa'id al-Antaki, by John Harper Forsyth, in 646 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. This is the author's Ph.D. dissertation (Un. of Mich., 1977). Wikipedia has a brief entry on John or Yahya of Antioch, who described events of importance in eastern Asia Minor and elsewhere. The present work is a study, not a translation. From a historian's perspective, the most valuable section is Part III: "Byzantine Eastern Policy and Diplomatic Relations with Armenia, Georgia, and the Arab states, 976-1025."

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Available as a separate pdf download is the Arabic text and French translation by I. Kratchkovsky and Alexander A. Vasiliev, from the serial Patrologia Orientalis, volumes 18 (1924) and 23 (1932), in 314 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. The Arabic text, prepared by Kratchkovsky, was based on several manuscripts. Kratchkovsky also made a critical edition of the Arabic text, which was published much later, in 1997. The French translation of this, published by Françoise Micheau and Gérard Troupeau in PO volume 47 (1997), is appended to this pdf, and a multilingual HTML version of the French translation is attached. Prepared by Robert Bedrosian.

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